Hearing: Testing

(asked on 17th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients waited more than six weeks for (a) an initial NHS hearing assessment and (b) a follow-up NHS hearing aid assessment in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 22nd October 2019

A monthly collection of waiting times for National Health Service audiology assessments is available on the NHS England website, which records the number of people waiting for more than six weeks at the end of each month. The monthly data is attached. The data includes waiting times for a first assessment or subsequent reassessment. The data is not broken down by type of assessment.

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